Unit Converters

Nanometers to Meters Converter

Convert nanometers to meters and back. One nanometer is a billionth of a meter, the scale of light wavelengths and chip nodes.

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Converted length
5e-7 m

500 nanometres → metres

Conversion factor
×1e-9
1 nm equals
1e-9 m
Conversion factors are exact; rounding may affect the final digit.
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How it's calculated

m = nm × 10⁻⁹

nm = nanometres, m = metres. 1 nanometre = one billionth of a metre; reverse: nm = m × 10⁹.

Common values

NanometersMeters
30.000000003
5000.0000005
7000.0000007
1,0000.000001
1,000,0000.001

Common questions

How many nanometers are in a meter?

One billion, since a nanometer is one billionth of a meter.

What is a 5 nm chip node?

A marketing label for a semiconductor process generation. It no longer matches any single physical dimension on the chip.